Ah, but the point is that “believe” is the weasliest of words. I know a few, and would guess there are quite a lot more, intelligent people who readily states “I believe that there is a God” but who would be very hesitant if you asked them to use “Evidence indicates that”.
I would say that what you call weasel words occupy a scale and that its not just as easy to use them all in any given context, at least not for reasonably intelligent people.
Ah, but the point is that “believe” is the weasliest of words. I know a few, and would guess there are quite a lot more, intelligent people who readily states “I believe that there is a God” but who would be very hesitant if you asked them to use “Evidence indicates that”.
I would say that what you call weasel words occupy a scale and that its not just as easy to use them all in any given context, at least not for reasonably intelligent people.
There certainly is a right weasel word for a context.